John 11:36

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

Yahweh said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—